Familiarise yourself with the course site and establish your personal learning environment.

• Dates: Independent study before the course starts
• Learning materials:
  1. Start here.
  2. Establish a personal learning environment.
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the course aims
  2. Check out the resources used for this site.
  3. Get to know the team.

The Person

• Dates: Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 March 2018
• Learning materials:
  1. Introduction to the person
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Do the activity to determine how person centered you are (Discussion forum)
  3. Watch the video A story about me
  4. Do the Getting to Know Me Document
  5. Do a reflection (WEnote)

Living Well with Dementia

• Dates: Monday 19 to Wednesday 21 March 2018
• Learning materials:
  1. Introduction to Living Well with Dementia
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Watch a video about Jims story
  3. Work through the supports to live well
  4. Watch a video about building your environment
  5. Write a response and post on the forum
  6. Watch a video on keeping your brain healthy
  7. Find out ways you can support someone to live well
  8. Learn about the hints for communicating
  9. Complete the Getting to Know Me Document
  10. Complete the Healthy Brain quiz
  11. Do a reflection (WEnote)

The Disease

• Dates: Thursday 22 to Monday 26 March 2018
• Learning materials:
  1. Introduction to the disease
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Watch the video What dementia is to me
  3. Watch the video about Dementia
  4. Take a Fact or Fiction quiz
  5. Read an article
  6. Do an activity on Normal aging vs. Dementia (Discussion forum)
  7. Do the SAGE test
  8. Watch a video to understand what Alzheimers is
  9. Complete the Life Story activity (Discussion forum)
  10. Take the Signs and Symptoms quiz
  11. Do a reflection (WEnote)

Tools

• Dates: Monday 30 to Tuesday 31 March 2018
• Learning materials:
  1. Introduction to tools
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Scroll through the Responsive behaviours powerpoint
  3. Post a comment on the Communication activity forum
  4. Take the Caregiving stress test
  5. Respond to a poem (WEnote)
  6. Watch the If Not Now video
  7. Complete a reflection (WEnote)